[Bug 47319] New: Wine 4.9 does not dereference symlinks

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47319

Bug ID: 47319
           Summary: Wine 4.9 does not dereference symlinks
           Product: Wine-staging
           Version: 4.9
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I have a symbolic link ~/Audio/hello.flac that is pointing
/mnt/audio/hello.flac . I have also set ~/Audio to be Y: in wine.

Prior to the 4.9 release, windows applications, such as Wine File Manager or
foobar2000 version 1.4.4 ( http://foobar2000.org) would dereference that
symlink and see that it is a 30Mb file that is a valid flac audio file.

With 4.9, file manager shows the size as 0 and foobar2000 cannot read the file
at all. I am on Fedora 30, where a dnf downgrade took me back to 4.5-1, where
this works as expected.

I have verified this on two different machines, using Wine File Manager as well
as foobar2000. I have also seen the same behavior in Fedora 29 (with Wine 4.9),
so I don't think it is OS specific.

Additional context:
- my data is on an XFS file system
- the symlinks are present because the data is managed by git annex (
https://git-annex.branchable.com/ )
- However, i can repro the problem without involving git annex merely by
creating symlinks.

Please let me know if there is any additional details I can provide or
experiments I can run locally. Thank you for the great work on wine.